Day 14: I'm thankful for Surprises! Like Christmas morning OR being proposed to on Christmas morning out of a nesting doll that's composed of many hedgehogs! Surprises like when you do laundry and find more than pennies and sticky wrappers or band aids in the pants pockets. Surprises like when you pick up the phone to call someone and they're already on the line (do we still can them phone lines?). Surprises like having just enough wrapping paper for all your gifts or just enough eggs to make cookies without a trip to the store. Surprises like being wrong when you really hoped you were. Surprises like kind strangers in a busy store. Surprises like waking up to an avalanche of balloons on your birthday! Aren't they wonderful? I'm so grateful for surprises.
Day 15: I'm thankful for Isaac! I only had one pregnancy, but I have two children. Isaac and I met when he was 5yrs old. In some ways it's astonishing that we don't actually share DNA! He's very social and incredibly emotional and dramatic, but I promise he came that way. He never ceases to surprise me with his singular perception and interpretation of the world. He has always been a source of entertainment for sure.
More important than the ways we're alike though are the ways he's so very different than I am. The ways he challenges me as a parent and a person to perceive/communicate/cope/engage/teach differently than I normally would. He forces me outside my comfort zone in a good way. He is part Mike, part me, part alien from another planet. He composes and invents in his head all the time and only shares glimpses of it with us now and then.
He's eleven today. I can't believe it! I was just teaching him to swing by himself and tie his shoes. I know that any minute now he'll be too cool for me and I'm so grateful for the movie nights, puzzles, trips down the nature trail, traveling and adventures we've had together. There isn't another kid like him on this planet.
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